During the stressful times of these last few years, FEAR has run rampant around the globe. There has been a pandemic all right, a tangent of fear resurrecting a plethora of various insecurities to vast unknowns -- fear -- exposing an explosive spiritual crisis, not only individually, but collectively worldwide.  We, as a people, don't like unknowns. We want complete control of the future, and when we can't, we spin into crisis mode because the sky might fall down upon us, and we will die. 

So we are here to break down fear, and our need for it. To expose it to the illusions that it is. Fear is merely a facet of the imagination that triggers insecurities, sending us spiraling into a spiritual crisis within ourselves. We work to control all areas of life. We save for a rainy day. We plan ahead for what we think will be a secure future. However, there is no such thing as security. The 'security rug' can be pulled out from us at any time, without warning, and then whatever are we going to do? So we plan for an unknown future where we will be safe -- whatever it is that makes us feel safe.  It's all imagination because it is the future, and who knows what that will be ..... it is not here now. 

Fear is the imagination illustrated with illusion How we react to fear is how we were programmed to be and when we are under stress we fall back on what we know, that which is familiar. It is learned behavior. We react to fear as those around us reacted to it. We have a need to live on the edge by scaring ourselves with something that could happen, might be, and possibly will...all dealing with future tense...and not a present reality.

There is a cosmic purpose behind all of it, as everything does. The Universe is calling for mankind to connect with 'Our Source', it does not matter what is it called, it is the source we were all created from. We are here, in the now, on Earth. There is no security on earth. There never has been, nor will there ever be. We were born to die. The time will eventually come when it will happen. If it is not today, then it is in the future. Why worry about a tomorrow that is not here today? And so in the now we can be thankful for the time we are here, for the people around us we love, until a tomorrow when we return to 'Our Source' and be with those patiently waiting to be with us again. There is nothing to fear except our insecurities that feed us with an illusion of a future that, more than likely, will never manifest, just as the majority of our fears failed to materialize in our past. They seldom do. If they did, it worked out for our highest and best. Why worry. Do what needs to be done today.  

Be happy. Life is short.  

Marilyn Banks, Holistic Coach and Counselor.            pathsthatcross1987@gmail.com              www.MarilynBanksPathsThatCross.com